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Hebrews 6 Something basic things · Life For Toledo

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  I'm thinking today of the book of Hebrews in chapter 6.
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  In the first couple of verses of chapter 6, the author of the book of Hebrews is talking
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  about the things that the author is going to kind of assume or leave behind or take
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  as basic fundamental things that all Christians have observed and understood and applied.
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  Included in there is washing for factisms, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the
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  dead, eternal judgment, and more.
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  These seem like not very basic or simplistic things.
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  In fact, there are things that one Christian factor or another might argue over.
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  There might even be disagreements.
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  And there really shouldn't be.
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  The word is pretty clear about these things.
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  But when you take on laying on hands, for example, well, laying on hands happens in
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  a church environment.
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  Baptism is a church environment.
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  And so people don't want to be involved in church sometimes.
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  They don't want to be with a local church for whatever reason.
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  It's because they don't want their sin to be noticed or because they have psychological
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  or physical barriers that make it hard for them to be involved in a local body, whatever
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  it is.
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  The bottom line is the writer of Hebrews is saying these things are a sin.
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  They are fundamental to the faith.
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  And when the writer moves on to the things that are less basic, which the writer will
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  do in the upcoming chapters, by no means does the writer say that we should leave these
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  things out.
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  But we have to accept that certain fundamental teachings of Christianity hold true.
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  Whatever you decide about what you consider to be higher level doctrines, whatever questions
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  you may come up with, you cannot deny that Jesus Christ authored the church, gave the
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  church the keys to the kingdom, and said to the church, go ye therefore.
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  And so we are to be the church doing the things that the church is to be doing and recognizing.